A link to the flickr set of photos of our trip to the Enchantments.

New and Improved! 25 Best of the Enchantments 2014. The best, or whatever photos from the trip. A bit less overwhelming!

And this link should get you a trip reportI'm linking in this photo, and I have to find a way to add some more tags to it. Because when I went looking for ( Read more... )

We just got back from Yosemite, a two-ish day drive for us, and listened to two audiobooks, one of which I highly recommend with no caveats for anyone over 12 or so. We listened to:

Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. It's very well written (and, also importantly, read!) and very engaging. ( Read more... )

There is going to have to be a longer update later, but we're home ( Read more... )

Tonight, I took a shower. Tomorrow morning I may take another. That will bring the number of showers I will have taken this week to three.

In Susanville, CA.

Holy crap. AC. In China. At the Great Wall.


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We didn't sleep too badly the night before the ride. I think much of our anxiety had been used up the day before for our "can we get up and actually bike at dawn?" trial ride, and we got to bed early, slept well enough that we didn't hear dh's aunt G getting in at about 11 ( Read more... )

Attempting to reserve campgrounds on the OR coast for Memorial Day weekend, ie next week ( Read more... )

There are many lakes called Blue Lake. I've been to two of them already in WA state, iirc, and this was the third, and... OMG. It is actually really blue!

Seriously, this was perhaps the hike with the best ease-to-reward ratio we've ever been on.

And camping was wonderful. Chilly, but so nice to be out.

Blue LakeDistance: 4.4 miles ( Read more... )

Perry should be home in a few more hours! His flight is 26 minutes late, gah ( Read more... )

AC is still very sick. Her fever is above what I consider ok to let work, so we've been pushing Motrin and Tylenol, and it's not coming down much. She's coughing and miserable ( Read more... )